Crossword-Solution: IMPACTION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Impaction | n. | The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip. |
| Impaction | n. | An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IMPACTION | anagram | MAINTOPIC |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with IMPACTION (5)
Lawson mentions the impaction of a portion of a breech of a gun in the forehead of a man for twelve years, with subsequent removal and recovery.
Stewart has extensively described the case of a native "Puckally" of Ceylon who was the victim of the most distressing symptoms from the impaction of a living fish in his throat.
Further attempts at extraction were dangerous and quite likely to fail; his symptoms were distressing, he could not hold his head erect without the most agonizing pain and he was almost prostrated from fright and asphyxia; it was thought advisable to push the fish into the stomach, and after an impaction of sixteen hours the symptoms were relieved.
Grellois has reported the history of a case of a child twenty-two months old, who suffered for some time with impaction of a small bone in the esophagus.
Occasionally the impaction of artificial teeth in the neighborhood of the larynx has been unrecognized for many years.
Quotes with IMPACTION (1)
All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of the extinction that would ensue in a few generations if the species did not replenish itself. This is the implicit, and most pestiferous, rationale for propagation: to become fully integrated into a society, one must offer it fresh blood. Naturally, the average set of parents does not conceive of their conception as a sacrificial act. These are civil…
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).